In texts in the New York Times, the White House repeats that it lives “war fatigue”. But still “the Biden administration is focused on winning over the undecided: Brazil, China, India and others who have not joined the campaign to isolate Russia.”
He got a phone call from Bolsonaro, a week from now, to Zelenski. But what Bloomberg echoes to Tass and Reuters is that he and his chancellor have promised more contracts to buy Russian fuel.
Interviewed this Tuesday (12) by the Russia-24 news channel, diplomat Alexei Labitsky said that Russia and Brazil “today interact in various fields”, with “positive dynamics”, and “have very serious perspectives for cooperation”.
Bolsonaro would have already resisted greater pressure from Biden, weeks ago, after their meeting in the US. That’s when the information came out, formally from the Dutch intelligence service, that a Russian agent was being held in Brazil.
Sites like Bellingcat, based in the Netherlands and which journalist Glenn Greenwald describes as “CIA arm“, they conveyed with details and their own files that the alleged spy of the Russian GRU service wanted to infiltrate a UN body, pretending to be Brazilian.
However, “under the command of General Augusto Heleno, Brazilian intelligence saw the CIA’s finger and an attempt to undermine Bolsonaro’s relationship with Putin”, reports the website Metrópoles. And the palace ordered not to buy the spy version.
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At the top of the Wall Street Journal, “Biden will visit a Saudi Arabia closer than ever to Russia.” And that, “Saudi officials claim, he does not plan to help him by pumping more oil.”
On the other hand, according to Reuters “exclusively”, “the Biden administration is considering lifting the ban on US sales of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia”.
